The table below documents the measurement capabilities at four different synchrotron beamlines that may be suitable for investigating the properties of multiferroics.

	I11 Diamond	XMaS ESRF	ID20 ESRF	ID31 ESRF
Magnetic Field	✘	✔	✔	✘
Electric Field	?	✔	?	✔
PE Loops	?	✔	✔	✔
Impedance Spectroscopy	?	?	?	?
High resolution PD (multiple analyser bank)	✔	✘	?	✔

The basic operating specifications of each beamline are as follows:

	I11 Diamond	XMaS ESRF	ID20 ESRF	ID31 ESRF
Energy Range (keV)	5 − 30	2.3 − 15	3 − 30	6 − 62
Energy resolution	1.5 x 10-4 at 10 keV	1.74 x 10-4	< 1 x 10-4	1.5 x 10-4 at 10 keV
Beamsize (mm v and h)	~ 0.8 x ~ 5	< 0.5 x 0.5	?	0.1 - 1.0 x 0.1 - 2.5
Flux at sample	1 x 1013 @10 kEV 300mA	3 x 1012 @10 kEV 200mA	?	3 x 1012 @30 keV, 200mA
Available sample environments	Furnaces Humidity chamber DSC Hot air blower He Cryostat ASI cryostat Oxford Cryosystem 700+ cryostream)	CCR Cryofurnace He 4 ILL Joule Thomson Cryostat He 3 ILL Joule Thomson Cryostat 1 Tesla Electromagnet 4 Tesla Superconducting Magnet	Cryostat (Orange, Mini Orange and Oxford) Displex (APD, Azimuth and H3) Furnace Cryofurnace Pressure cell	Liquid He flow cryostat Oxford cyrosystems cryostream Hot air blower Mirror furnace 50 sample robotic sample changer Translation stages Gas cells 50mW 532nm (green) laser
Detectors	MAC detectors (up to 45 channels) PSD (90 degree aperture)	Scintillation detectors Ge solid state detector & MCA Si drift diode Avalanche photodiodes Mar 165 CCD detector Si photodiodes Ion chambers	Scintillation detectors Si PIN-Diode Si avalanche photodiodes Si solid state detector Si photodiode Ionization chamber	9-channel Si-111 multi-analyser stage using LaCl3 scintillators Avalanche photodiode detectors

Weblinks

I11 - High resolution powder diffaction [1]

BM28 ESRF - XMaS, The UK-CRG [2]

ID20 ESRF - Magnetic scattering beamline [3]

ID31 ESRF - The high-resolution powder-diffraction beamline [4]